Kat Fogarty is a versatile, pansexual photographic artist born in Gunditjmara (Warrnambool) now working in Naarm (Melbourne). She has a strong personal practice and is a talented commercial photographer whose work takes influence from Cindy Sherman, Elizaveta Porodina, Raphaela Rosella, and Dariane Sanchez.
She brings an emotive awareness to image making, using light and colour to connect the audience to her subjects, facilitating a connection between viewer and viewed which enhances her rich narratives.
Her works include:
The long form series, The Forgotten Australians, which explores her own father’s shocking experience of the state-sanctioned removal and institutionalisation of Indigenous, migrant, orphaned, and poor children in 19th century Australia.
And the commercially focused series Fashion has No Gender, which is dedicated to celebrating the beauty of gender diversity and the ways in which fashion can be a vehicle to explore and celebrate identity. This work grew from her own experience of prejudice, and raising a son in a regional area, where close-mindedness is rife.
